Stackless Platform Independence?

[Christian Tismer]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> Christian Tismer <tismer at tismer.com> writes:
> 
>>Makes pretty much sense to me.
>>Stackless can provide light-weight threads to all platforms.
>>There is no need to use OS threads unless you need it
>>for I/O.
>>
> 
> Do you think it's feasible to modify Python to use non-blocking i/o
> everywhere, and then simulate blocking in Stackless?  I.e. when a
> microthread does an i/o operation, Python would start the operation
> asynchronously, and the Stackless microthread scheduler would block
> the microthread til the i/o operation actually completes (detected
> using select or SIGIO).


This is roughly how I understood Frederic's idea.

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